After following the instructions to begin my experiment, I obtained the following results:
After just 5 minutes, there is a drop of water on the cardboard and on the string, a drop is about to drip onto the cardboard.
After 10 minutes, the drop of water on the cardboard keeps getting bigger as drops from the string fall. The string was wet.
After 15 minutes, the cardboard drop is about an inch wide. The string is wet.
After 20 minutes, the cardboard drop has gotten even bigger than 1 inch. The string has another drop, ready to drop.
After 25 minutes, the drop of liquid off the string has made the cardboard liquid drop even more large.
After 30 minutes, the drop on the string dropped onto the cardboard and the cardboard liquid is now even bigger.
After 24 hours,the liquid has a thin layer of "icy-looking" crystal on it and the string is stiff. The drop of liquid on the paper is dry now and is salty-looking. The drop looks clear and dry.
After 2 days,the string remains stiff and the drop of liquid is now even dryer, almost like dry salt. The rest of the experiment remains the same.
After 3 days, the liquid in each cup is more crystallized and firm. The outside of the cups have little salty crystals on it. Everything else is about the same.
After 4 days, the string is still stiff and the crystallized "drop" on the cardboard is more crusty. A little crystal remains on the cup
After 5 days, the liquid in the cups seem to be much more solid and the string and the "drop" are crusty.
After 6 days, the experiment looks the same--the drop has become more dry, crusty and the string is still stiff.
After 7 days, the string is very stiff and the dry drop is very crusty.
Conclusions and observations on my experiment: I enjoyed doing this experiment but wished that there would have been a few more things that changed during the week. I especially liked the results after 24 hours. Overall, I was hoping to get a bigger "drip" on the string or a larger "drop" on the cardboard. I imagined big caves and big drips. I read that the humidity in the air can change the results of experiments like these, so I would like one day to try this experiment another place where the air is more humid, like the beach. Our house is very dry in the Winter. I also liked having my own website on the experiment to share with other kids who might be doing experiments on dripstones.